Rare Fruit Council-Palm Beach Chapter

FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH
MONTHLY MEETING
No guest speaker - this is a member voting night.
Please check the status of your membership to ensure you are eligible to vote, and please make your voices heard this Friday night, at 7pm.
After we vote, fruit celebs Har Mahdeem, Alex Salazar, and Rob Lawracy will be on a panel to answer all of our fruity questions. Also, a lot of us get tacos afterwards - please join us!!!
Mounts Botanical Garden
531 N Military Trl,
West Palm Beach, FL 33415

Next Speaker August 9, 2024

Michael Adler

Bio-Michael Adler is a restoration ecologist, local tropical fruit enthusiast, and long time RFC member. He is an engaging speaker and is sometimes funny. He has a wealth of knowledge and has been growing tropical fruit in the South Florida landscape for decades.

Topic-"Pruning in cooperation with tree physiology"

Make way for the mango! Get ready for the most vibrant and juiciest event of the year. Our Annual Mango Festival is back! For three decades, Fairchild has been hosting this extraordinary festival to celebrate the beloved mango. Featuring hundreds of exotic mango varieties, this festival is the ultimate homage to the King of Fruit. ⁠
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Join us for a weekend as delicious as the mango itself, where you can tantalize your taste buds with an exotic array of fruit from Fairchild's Tropical Fruit Program, local fruit vendors, and world-renowned chefs!

Get you tickets now: https://ftbg.ticketapp.org/portal/product/67

Monday Mangos! Lots of great mangos today in the Produce Stand $2.99/lb. Pickering, Duncan, Tommy Atkin, Madam Blanc, and other unknown varieties.... plus lots of local and organic Nam Wah, Gros Michelle and B***o Bananas! Also Boiling Bananas!
13527 Okeechobee Blvd Loxahatchee Groves

Tropical Acres Farms will be closed on Sunday 30th-2024!

We will be participating in the Florida Mango Festival at Mounts Botanical Garden, where we will be selling fruit and grafted trees.

We hope to see lots of you there!
Tropical Acres Farms Team

FREE ADMISSION AND PARKING

❤️🥭🥭SATURDAY!🥭🥭

Mango Fruit Sale
Saturday, June 22nd, 2024
Mounts Botanical Garden
10am - 2pm
531 N Military Trail
West Palm Beach, FL
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Mango Fruit Sale
Saturday, June 22nd, 2024
Mounts Botanical Garden
10am - 2pm
531 N Military Trail
West Palm Beach, FL

      

Another talk is coming up for the Royal Palm Beach Library gardening series!

Edible Gardens: Mango and Avocados on Saturday June 29th, 2024

Learn the important fundamentals of growing avocados and mangos with UF/IFAS Master Gardener Volunteer Leslie Salmon.

Maintence, fertilization, pest, diseases, etc.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED: https://pbclibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/66170ecb1e57af28003f57de?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0-ACL1zM0oYCZYrI2b25ngmUimtr0kCqJVGF8fQguhlLISxX0EvEN_H-8_aem_ZmFrZWR1bW15MTZieXRlcw

Mango Hours for the Coming Week! — The Mango Place For the week of June 17, 2024- June 22, 2024, we will be open: Monday, June 17, 2024 11am-12pm (Noon) Wednesday, June 19, 2024 11am-12pm (Noon) Thursday, June 20, 2024 11am-12pm (Noon) Saturday, June 22, 2024 9am-12pm (Noon) Mangos will be sold by the pound. No need to preorder- y

🥭🥭📦🤤 We will be posting mango shipping boxes 📦 again Tuesday at 7PM EST on our website store! Lots of *amazing* varieties in season now 😀

https://www.tropicalacresfarms.com/shop

Local customers, our cash fruit stand continues to be open from 3-6pm on weekdays and 12-3pm on Sat and Sun. We are posting preorder fruit after 8pm each day for next day pickup . Please forgive us as Sometimes we’re a little late getting them on 😅.

Our next RFC BOARD MEETING will be Friday, June 14 at 5:30pm, immediately before the next chapter meeting, at Mounts Botanical Garden Auditorium.

Board meetings are open to all members.

If you have an interest in leadership, please let us know!

Looking to purchase our FERTILIZERS, custom-blended by expert and RFC legend, the great DBA Har Mahdeem?

We'll have some available at our next chapter meeting, FRIDAY, JUNE 14 at 6:45pm!
TO RESERVE YOURS, please send us a message!

Mango Sales Moved to Preorder Due to Rain — The Mango Place Due to the rainy weather that is forecasted for the rest of the week, we will be doing mango preorders for Wednesday, June 12, 2024 and Thursday, June 13, 2024. We’ll post the inventory here in the morning and there will be 2 pickup times. Please do not order mangos if you cannot come at

Mango Hours for the Coming Week! — The Mango Place For the week of June 10, 2024- June 15, 2024, we will be open: Monday, June 10, 2024 11am-12pm (Noon) Wednesday, June 12, 2024 11am-12pm (Noon) Thursday, June 13, 2024 11am-12pm (Noon) Saturday, June 15, 2024 9am-12pm (Noon) Mangos will be sold by the pound. No need to preorder- y

Tainung #64 - An Ultra Productive Sweet Potato for Florida This video discusses Tainung #64 sweet potato. This variety was the winner of our sweet potato trials that included around 35 kinds of sweet potato. It out...

37 acres of tropical beauty! Make plans to visit Fruit and Spice Park this summer. 🌳🌳🌳

Enjoy an interactive experience with our collection where you are allowed to touch, smell, taste, see and hear the tropics. Get off the path and see what you discover. You can follow our self walking map or join us on one of our daily tours. 👟👒😎

✅Check our website for your times, events, workshops and volunteer opportunities!

Connecting our community to experiencing a garden in a different way!

🎊🎉🥭🥭 We have opened our cash fruit stand for regular hours. We are now open weekdays 3pm-6pm and Saturdays and Sundays from 12pm-3pm. Lots of Grafted trees🌳 available as well AND we will be posting some fruit shipping boxes tonight as well. 😀

Lychee Fruit 5 LB $25 ALL SOLD
Fresh chicken eggs $5 a dozen
Honey $10 a pint $20 a quart
New Zealand Baby Rabbits $20
Call Mike @ TreesNMore 772-781-9570
Local Pick up Palm City

Hi everyone lots of mangos, lychees, and sapodilla tomorrow! Stop by from 10-4!

‘Black snow’: sugarcane burning makes our lives hell, Florida locals say Fire and ash from burning cane fields has worsened health near Lake Okeechobee, US’s largest sugar-growing region

Mango Hours for the Coming Week! — The Mango Place For the week of June 2, 2024- June 8, 2024, we will be open: Monday, June 3, 2024 11am-12pm (Noon) Wednesday, June 5, 2024 11am-12pm (Noon) Thursday, June 6, 2024 11am-12pm (Noon) Saturday, June 8, 2024 9am-12pm (Noon) Mangos will be sold by the pound. No need to preorder- you’ll